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Gods free mercy to England presented as a precious and powerful motive to humiliationGods free mercy to England presented as a pretious and powerfull motive to humiliation
Gods free mercy to England presented as a precious and powerful motive to humiliation : in a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast, Feb. 23, 1641 / by Edmund Calamy ...Gods free mercy to England presented as a pretious and powerfull motive to humiliation : in a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, Feb. 23, 1641 / by Edmvnd Calamy ...
London: printed for Christopher Meredith, 1642
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. Consider, the patience of God towards us. This is an argument that should drive us to repentance, Rom. 2. There is no sin, ⟨p. 41⟩but it is committed in the very bosom of God. For God fills Heaven & earth, and sees all your curtain abominations. And he is able to destroy you, he is just, and must wound the bairy scalp of those that go on in their wickedness, and he is a holy and a pure God, that hates your iniquities from his very heart. And yet behold how patient this God is towards you! At such a time, when thou wert in the act of adultery, he might have sent thee to hell in the very act, he might have made thy tongue to rot, the last oath thou sworest. Nothing with-held him but pure mercy. O let this melt our hearts. What a mercy is it to be out of hell? Many in hell have not sinned the sins that we have done. It is his free grace that we are delivered. We might have been weeping in hell at this instant: And then our tears should have been our hell, but now they will prove our heaven, if God work them in us.
3. Consider, the patience of God towards us. This is an argument that should drive us to repentance, Rom. 2. There is no sin, ⟨p. 41⟩but it is committed in the very bosome of God. For God fils Heaven & earth, and sees all your curtaine abominations. And he is able to destroy you, he is just, and must wound the bairy scalpe of those that goe on in their wickednesse, and he is a holy and a pure God, that hates your iniquities from his very heart. And yet behold how patient this God is towards you! At such a time, when thou wert in the act of adultery, he might have sent thee to hell in the very act, he might have made thy tongue to rot, the last oath thou sworest. Nothing with-held him but pure mercy. O let this melt our hearts. What a mercy is it to be out of hell? Many in hell have not sinned the sinnes that we have done. It is his free grace that we are delivered. We might have been weeping in hell at this instant: And then our teares should have beene our hell, but now they will prove our heaven, if God worke them in us.